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There is a huge focus on the overall production value; i.e. how the factions are designed, presented, with unique soundtracks for each faction, unique voice acting for each Lord, and all that. So there is an immense amount of replay value just based on this.
Combat is definitely more complex than in the historical TW games. As you can imagine, a fantasy game with flying monsters, magic, war machines, immortal superheroes and such has more to offer than anything historical with just three flavors of infantry being the same for all factions.
Overall people like to complain about the game being too easy, rather than the opposite. But the "game 2 ez lol" complainers usually watch all those exploit streamer videos and imitate those playstyles, so they likely don't even know how the game is like when approaching it completely unbiased and unaware of unfair options for the player.
TBH i'm mostly seeing the same complaints like in every _single_other strategy game.
Just that this game is several times better produced than the competition.
Ratings shouldn't matter much. The game has an extremely toxic minority fanbase, which is very keen on sabotaging the game development by review bombing.
Safe to say that this is the top #1 strategy title of its kind, for the past decade or so.
It is a great series. people get more angry because they value it, and take anything they don't like personally.
If you want a cheap introduction, buy wh2 and try it.
It is faster if you have a slow computer.
I would consider getting 2 & 1 then you can play all races from both in wh2.
Game is turn based, battle is real time but you can play on slow time and pause.
Mechanisms differ between 1,2,3 and even different modes in each game.
The DLC and races in previous (1&2) also allow you those features / races/ lords in the later game.
depending on what packs are on sale.
I play 3 and 2, but 3 is much slower on my machine due to not being on SSD.
some starts are much harder than others.
Try it.
Each race has very different functionality playstyle and mechanics.
See if you like it, if not, refund.
Maybe you'll have better luck convincing people to by the game that's pretty much the same as this one but with less stuff and less QoL next time.
But did you play anything close ? Some 4X, some TBS or RTS strategy ??
I have played some strategy games and 4x stuff before. Nothing that I remember that has a combat like Total War though but I mean I don't mind learning if it's a good game :)
Another way to get to all the factions and subfactions is to simply buy all the DLCs as well. The only thing you'll be missing out on is the base game subfactions and characters from the previous games, though to be fair they also tend to have the most popular and iconic characters of their factions.
Yes, getting the base games will allow you to try the bulk of the factions, and if you enjoy the game you can then choose DLC based on the factions that you like. The game has hundreds if not thousands of hours worth of content, so getting everything at once is not necessary.
Skaven are the faction where DLC is typically considered to be essential to the experience.